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DevOps / SRE

Terraform Locals: How, When and Why to use locals

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 25, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform stands tall as one of the leading tools for provisioning and managing...

Terraform: Deploy Azure Storage Account and Blob Container

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 19, 2023

HashiCorp Terraform is a great tool for deploying and managing Microsoft Azure resource. This includes management of Azure Storage Accounts and Blob...

Why HashiCorp Terraform is Essential for SREs and DevOps Engineers

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 10, 2023

As a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), managing cloud infrastructure deployments is a critical aspect of your daily activities. It...

Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 14, 2023

When setting up CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipelines in Azure DevOps for .NET 7+ solutions, such as those using...

Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 9, 2023

HashiCorp Terraform is popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool used to automate infrastructure deployments. Terraform is great for deploying...

Terraform Best Practices for Writing Clean, Readable, and Maintainable Code

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 6, 2023

HashiCorp Terraform has become one of the most popular infrastructure as code (IaC) tools. Terraform allows you to define and manage your...

Terraform State Management Explained

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 6, 2023

Terraform state management is extremely important with all Terraform projects. State management is the feature that allows you to manage, store, and...

Terraform: Deploy Azure Function App with Consumption Plan

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 2, 2023

HashiCorp Terraform is great for deploying any Microsoft Azure resource, and the same applies to deploying serverless compute with Azure Function...

Terraform: Store Backend State in Azure Storage Account

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 1, 2023

One of the things that HashiCorp Terraform requires to work is the ability to save and store the Terraform State Management (.tfstate) file. By...

Terraform: String Functions and Interpolation Explained

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 1, 2023

Various tasks working with strings in HashiCorp Terraform is the most common type of code written when writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)...

Chris Pietschmann Awarded HashiCorp Ambassador – 2023

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 28, 2023

I have been recognized by HashiCorp due to my continued dedicated and commitment to helping the DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) community...

Terraform: Using CIDR Notation to Define IP Address Ranges and Subnet Address Spaces

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 24, 2023

Defining IP Address spaces using CIDR notation for network and subnets is a common task for network engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Site...

Configuring Manual Triggers in GitHub Actions with `workflow_dispatch`

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 22, 2023

Manually triggering GitHub Actions workflows can be very useful at times, in addition to GitHub Actions ability to be triggered on certain events,...

What is DevOps?

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 19, 2023

At its core, DevOps is a cultural and collaborative approach that integrates development and operations teams to streamline the software development...